The contract covers the basic engineering, front-end engineering design, detailed engineering and procurement services for the ISBL (inside battery limit) and the OSBL (outside battery limit). The scope of work also includes supply of materials and construction management services for the ISBL.

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JBF Industries awarded Technip with an engineering contract
for a 1.25 million tpy latest-generation purified terephthalic
acid (PTA) unit, to be located in the Special Economic Zone in
Mangalore, India, the companies said on
Thursday.

"We are very proud to have been selected for this world-scale
PTA project," said Marco
Villa, a senior vice president for Technip. "It will
bring together the competencies of our operating centers in India and Italy.

"This contract also reinforces our strong long-lasting
collaboration with BP for PTA. We believe that the PTA market
growth in Asia will open up further opportunities and we hope
to develop a long-term relationship with JBF to support their
future developments."

PTA is the primary feedstock for polyesters used in
textiles and packaging.

The contract covers the basic engineering, front-end
engineering design, detailed engineering and procurement
services for the ISBL (inside battery limit) and the OSBL
(outside battery limit) of the unit.

The scope of work also includes supply of materials and construction management services for
the ISBL. The plant will feature BP's leading-edge proprietary
PTA technology.

Technip's operating centers in Rome, Italy and in Chennai,
Mumbai and Delhi, India, will execute the contract,
which is scheduled to be completed in the first semester of
2015.

"With the commissioning of this plant, it will be a major
step for JBF towards backward integration," said B.C. Arya,
chairman of JBF Industries.

"JBF is proud to be associated with BP and look forward to
utilizing Technip's competency in setting up this world-scale
project."

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Joe Harrington, PhD01.25.2013

Interesting to see growth in PTA production plants. I personally was involved in PTA projects (from operations safety standpoint) while employed by AMOCO during the 1980's. Proactive action on my part resulted in methods for explosion prevention in ITA and PTA plants. The net effect of implementation was reduced cost and increased safety.